PROGRAM
EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Wednesday 13 Jan
Time
Speaker
Title
09:15 AM
Spenta Wadia
Opening Remarks
09:30 AM
Sriram Ramaswamy
The complex collective dynamics of self-driven particles
[Documents]
10:15 AM
Upinder Bhalla
Multiple cellular states emerge from simple chemistry and cellular traffic
11:00 AM
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TEA
11:30 AM
Stefan Thurner
Darwins daemon and a mechanistic approach to evolution dynamics
[Documents]
12:15 PM
B K Chakrabarti
Statistics of the Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem
[Documents]
13:00 PM
--
LUNCH
14:45 PM
Vidyanand Nanjundiah
The evolution of cooperation in social amoebae
15:30 PM
--
TEA
16:00 PM
Anindita Bhadra
The links and hubs of power in a wasp society
16:45 PM
R E Amritkar
Synchronization of networks
[Documents]
17:30 PM
Sunil Kothari
New directions in Indian dance
Thursday 14 Jan
Time
Speaker
Title
09:30 AM
Didier Sornette
Black swans, Dragon-kings and predictions of crises in complex systems
[Documents]
10:15 AM
Vikram Soni
Consequences of sudden species loss in an evolutionary model
11:00 AM
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TEA
11:30 AM
Neo Martinez
Structure, stability and robustness of complex ecological networks
12:15 PM
Harini Nagendra
Charting the complexity of forest change in human impacted forests
13:00 PM
--
LUNCH
14:00 PM
Priya Iyer
Theories for the evolution of the sexes
[Documents]
14:45 PM
Amaresh Chakrabarti
Understanding and supporting evolution of engineering designs
[Documents]
15:30 PM
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TEA
16:00 PM
K Ghosh Dastidar
On some aspects of price competition in a homogeneous product market - Evolution of cooperation, existence of equilibrium and other issues
[Documents]
16:45 PM
Sanjay Jain
Formalizing the notion of innovation in an evolutionary model
[Documents]
Friday 15 Jan
Time
Speaker
Title
09:30 AM
M. Madan Babu
Structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks and its influence on genome organization
[Documents]
10:15 AM
Vijay Srinivasan
Minimal metabolome- The canonical network of autotrophic metabolism and its analysis
[Documents]
11:00 AM
--
TEA
12:15 PM
Alain Pumir
Quantifying complexity of genetic interactions- Theoretical analysis of invertebrate phototransduction
13:00 PM
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LUNCH
14:00 PM
Sumantra Chattarji
Differentiating safe from dangerous- From behavior to single neurons
14:45 PM
G Rangarajan
Detecting functional connectivity in neuronal networks
15:30 PM
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TEA
16:00 PM
Manindra Agrawal
Classifying complexity of problems algorithmically
[Documents]